[ARC5] "1917"

[Rich Post]

By the time the US got into the war, the French were using a Wien gap spark
transmitter to a double-tuned cat's whisker crystal set for one-way
communication for airplane artillery spotters.  Imagine sitting near any
battle front with a long antenna on two bamboo poles each made of three
thirteen feet sections listening to coordinates in the noise of war. I have
the US variation of that receiver called a BC-14A as modified per
instructions from a certain Major.  Yes, it is operational.

Rich KB8TAD

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:12 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Even as late as WW-II.  I remember an article in the AFCEA magazine
> Signal where the author proposed a reason for the rapid fall of France
> in WW-II.  He said every German tank was equipped with radio, while
> the French were dependent on motorcycle couriers.  So the French
> commanders had no idea what was really going on with their tanks.
>
> Jim W6JVE
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